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1/2 Thaler Death of John VI
| Issuer | Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst (German States) |
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| Year | 1667 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IOAN. D. G. PR. ANH. COM. ASC. DN. SER. BERN. IEV. ET KN. (Translation: John, by the Grace of God, prince of Anhalt, count of Ascania, lord of Zerbst, Bernburg, Jever and Kniphausen.) |
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John VI of Anhalt-Zerbst died in 1667 after a reign defined largely by the slow recovery of his territory from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. Anhalt-Zerbst had been among the harder-hit Protestant principalities, and the duchy's finances remained constrained well into the second half of the century. Memorial issues like this half thaler were a standard dynastic obligation rather than a celebration — struck to mark the passing of a ruler and circulated among the court and nobility as much as through commerce.
KM#14 is among the scarcer attributable pieces from this small mint's output in that decade.